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Update from the U.S. National Committee for the IPY Mary Albert, Chair

International Polar Year 2007-08. Update from the U.S. National Committee for the IPY Mary Albert, Chair Sheldon Drobot, Study Director. www.us-ipy.org. Polar Research Board www.nas.edu/prb. Timeline. Community Input. Draft report available for community comment.

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Update from the U.S. National Committee for the IPY Mary Albert, Chair

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  1. International Polar Year 2007-08 Update from the U.S. National Committee for the IPY Mary Albert, Chair Sheldon Drobot, Study Director www.us-ipy.org Polar Research Board www.nas.edu/prb

  2. Timeline Community Input Draft report available for community comment community & agency planning input for vision & science 2004 Draft input ‘07 ‘08 ‘05 ‘06 2003 Phase II: Implementation Report? NAS funds planning International Polar Year U.S. report publication U.S. National Committee Organization U.S. report due to International IPY committee Committee Action

  3. US Planning Committee Mary Albert, Chair, ERDC CRREL Cecilia Bitz, Washington John Kelley, Alaska-Fairbanks Douglas Wiens, Washington U. at St. Louis Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Institution Louis Lanzerotti, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies Philip Smith, McGeary & Smith Jerry Bowen, CBS News Richard Glenn, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation George Somero, Stanford Cristina Takacs-Vesbach, New Mexico Robert Bindschadler, NASA - GSFC David Bromwich, Ohio State Gunter Weller, Alaska-Fairbanks Jacqueline Grebmeier, Tennessee Peter Schlosser, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Chuck Kennicutt (Ex-officio), Texas A&M Terry Wilson (Ex-officio), Ohio State Patrick Webber (Ex-officio), Michigan State Chris Elfring, NRC Sheldon Drobot, NRC Kristen Averyt, NRC

  4. Past Events • Polar Research Board Session on IPY (Nov 2002) • SEARCH Open Science Meeting (Oct 2003) • Senior Arctic Officials Meeting of the Arctic Council (Oct 2003) • 3rd SBI Pan-Arctic Meeting (Nov 2003) • International Arctic Social Science Meeting • Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting (Dec 2003) • Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting (Jan 2004) • American Geophysical Union - Ocean Sciences Meeting (Jan 2004) • ASLO/TOS Joint Ocean Research Conference (Feb 2004)

  5. Future Events • USNC IPY National Academy report available May 12, 2004 • IPY Session at AGU-CGU in Montreal, Canada May 18. Jointly convened by US & Canada • U.S. committee-community-agency IPY implementation planning this summer

  6. Table of Contents US National Committee Report on IPY Executive Summary Why an International Polar Year Now? Scientific Challenges for the IPY Understanding Change in the Polar Regions Exploring Scientific Frontiers in the Polar Regions Technology to Enable Innovative Observations Increasing Public Understanding of the Polar Regions Conclusions and Recommendations

  7. from Table of Contents US National Committee Report on IPY Understanding Change in the Polar Regions Effects of Human-Environment Dynamics Changes in the Polar Regions in Recent Times Lessons from Past Changes Exploring Scientific Frontiers in the Polar Regions Exploring Life in the Polar Regions Exploring New Regions Technology to Enable Innovative Observations Observing the Polar Regions During IPY 2007-2008 Assembling Long-Term Multidisciplinary Polar Observing Systems Innovative Data Analysis Technology Data Archival and Dissemination

  8. IPY scientific challenges • Assessing Large-Scale Environmental Change in the Polar Regions

  9. IPY scientific challenges • Exploring Scientific Frontiers in the Polar Regions

  10. IPY scientific challenges • Observing the Polar Regions

  11. IPY scientific challenges • Effects of Human-Environment Dynamics

  12. IPY scientific challenges • Creating New Connections between Science and the Public

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